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That's actually the reality for a lot of Mesopotamian tablets, e.g "this cow was sold to the neighbor for 2 shekels of silver".

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Bookkeeping of sorts is extremely old activity.I'm sure as soon as someone said ' you owe me 5 cows.No I don't,we settled last year' a need for bookkeeping was born.

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